COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0912076dc
Reference Number:
English MS 81
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Gospel of John
Alternative Image Title:
Resurrection of Jesus
Parent Work Title:
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator:
John, the Apostle, Saint
Creator Role:
Author
Creator Attribution:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator:
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created:
14th century [late]
Page:
71r
Image Sequence Number:
071r
Description:
Gospel of John: chapters twenty and twenty-one. Mary Magdalene recognises Jesus and he tells her to go to the disciples and tell them he is risen. Jesus appear to the disciples and shows them his wounds. The disciple Thomas is not among the number and he doubts that Jesus has appeared. Jesus appears again to the disciples and asks Thomas to put his fingers into the wounds from his crucifixion and Thomas believes. A pen-flourished initial 'A' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Subject:
Bible. N.T.
Subject:
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject:
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Religion
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered:
Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
People Covered:
Jesus Christ
People Covered:
Thomas, Apostle, Saint, 1st cent.
People Covered:
Mary Magdalene, Saint
Item Height:
270 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Danvers, Anne, Dame, "widowe, sumtyme wyffe to Sr William Danvers, knyght, hoose soule God assoyle hathe gevyn this present Booke unto mastre confessor and his Bretherne encloosed in Syon, etc."
Provenance:
Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
Provenance:
Wilson, Lea
Provenance:
Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 406-7. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
Bibliographic Citation:
See Forshall, Josiah and Madden, Frederic, 'The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), vol. 1, MS no.156.
Bibliographic Citation:
Published as 'The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa MCCCLXXX : now first printed from a contemporary manuscript formerly in the monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA' (Chiswick: William Pickering, 1848).
Bibliographic Citation:
Cooper, W. R., 'The Wycliffe New Testament (1388): an edition in modern spelling, with an introduction, the original prologues and the Epistle to the Laodiceans, edited for The Tyndale Society' (London: British Library, 2002)
Notes:
See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-04-15
Multi Page Number:
785
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Gospel of John
